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A street procession moves through a town, with a row of colourful ceremonial umbrellas with scalloped rims and fringed tassels held aloft on poles. Musicians in white dhotis and shirts play long brass horns and wind instruments, several with tilaks on their foreheads. A woman in an orange sari with a flower garland and a woman in a deep blue sari play instruments nearby, and a young woman in a turquoise salwar kameez walks ahead with a pipe. In the foreground a man in a pale striped shirt and red sash plays a drum. Behind them a banner is held up and shops with signs line the street, and a bamboo-and-thatch structure stands behind the umbrellas.

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